SENSELESS KILLINGS. The lifeless body of Kalamtukan village chief Johnny Semillano Condez, 47, lies inside a pickup after the shooting incident in his barangay in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental on Saturday night (Dec. 14, 2019). Police Regional Office-7 chief Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon ordered Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office chief Col. Julian Entoma to intervene and stop senseless killings in the province. (Photo courtesy of PRO-7)
Alarmed by the spate of killings in Negros Oriental, the top police official in Central Visayas has directed the provincial police chief “to stop the senseless killings” in the province.
Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, chief of Police Regional Office-Region 7 (PRO-7), said he ordered Col. Julian Entoma, chief of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO), to make interventions in order to prevent senseless killings in the province.
His directive came after another village chief and his nephew were killed in an ambush Saturday night in Kalamtukan in Bayawan City.
Incumbent Kalamtukan village chief Johnny Semillano Condez, 47, and Danny Marata Jr., 16, died instantly after gunmen opened fire on them around 7:30 p.m. in the sub-village of Candollon.
Danny Marata Sr., Danny’s father, was wounded but he and Edilito Magbanua managed to run towards a sugarcane plantation.
“Initial investigation showed that the nature of these killings was family feud. Magkakamag-anak na nagpapatayan. Dapat matigil ito. (Family members are killing each other. This needs to be stopped.) That is why I’m ordering the provincial director to intervene and stop these senseless killings,” de Leon said in a message sent to the Philippine News Agency.
He said Entoma confirmed that the deaths were due to family feud.
Condez was the primary suspect in a double-murder case against his own relatives, he added, quoting Entoma.
“In fact, a search warrant was already being sought against him on information that he was in possession of unlicensed firearms,” he said.
Police probers said Condez’s convoy went to the hill on board a government-issued rescue vehicle and two motorcycles to search for a mobile phone signal.
“Upon reaching the place, Condez disembarked from the vehicle, without knowing that the perpetrators were in the area. According to the witnesses, bursts of gunfire ensued hitting (him), Danny Sr. (and his son)… “While the perpetrators whom they (victims) have known well escaped to evade the responding (police),” they added.
Chief M/Sgt. Archer Birjes, investigator of NOPPO, said he found out that the victims also sustained hack wounds.
Recovered from the crime scene were 15 empty shells of M16 rifle; two live ammunition of 12 gauge shotgun; an empty shell of 12 gauge shotgun; four empty shells of caliber .45; three empty shells of 9mm Luger; a magazine of M16 with 30 rounds of live ammunition; and a live ammunition for .45-caliber pistol.
Acting on de Leon’s order, Entoma deployed “six tracker teams to go after the killers and bring them to justice".
Meanwhile, de Leon said he welcomes the probe to be conducted by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on the death of the village chief.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1088905
Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, chief of Police Regional Office-Region 7 (PRO-7), said he ordered Col. Julian Entoma, chief of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO), to make interventions in order to prevent senseless killings in the province.
His directive came after another village chief and his nephew were killed in an ambush Saturday night in Kalamtukan in Bayawan City.
Incumbent Kalamtukan village chief Johnny Semillano Condez, 47, and Danny Marata Jr., 16, died instantly after gunmen opened fire on them around 7:30 p.m. in the sub-village of Candollon.
Danny Marata Sr., Danny’s father, was wounded but he and Edilito Magbanua managed to run towards a sugarcane plantation.
“Initial investigation showed that the nature of these killings was family feud. Magkakamag-anak na nagpapatayan. Dapat matigil ito. (Family members are killing each other. This needs to be stopped.) That is why I’m ordering the provincial director to intervene and stop these senseless killings,” de Leon said in a message sent to the Philippine News Agency.
He said Entoma confirmed that the deaths were due to family feud.
Condez was the primary suspect in a double-murder case against his own relatives, he added, quoting Entoma.
“In fact, a search warrant was already being sought against him on information that he was in possession of unlicensed firearms,” he said.
Police probers said Condez’s convoy went to the hill on board a government-issued rescue vehicle and two motorcycles to search for a mobile phone signal.
“Upon reaching the place, Condez disembarked from the vehicle, without knowing that the perpetrators were in the area. According to the witnesses, bursts of gunfire ensued hitting (him), Danny Sr. (and his son)… “While the perpetrators whom they (victims) have known well escaped to evade the responding (police),” they added.
Chief M/Sgt. Archer Birjes, investigator of NOPPO, said he found out that the victims also sustained hack wounds.
Recovered from the crime scene were 15 empty shells of M16 rifle; two live ammunition of 12 gauge shotgun; an empty shell of 12 gauge shotgun; four empty shells of caliber .45; three empty shells of 9mm Luger; a magazine of M16 with 30 rounds of live ammunition; and a live ammunition for .45-caliber pistol.
Acting on de Leon’s order, Entoma deployed “six tracker teams to go after the killers and bring them to justice".
Meanwhile, de Leon said he welcomes the probe to be conducted by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on the death of the village chief.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1088905
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